| dc.description.abstract | Human capital refers to the stock of knowledge, habits, social and
personality attributes including creativity, embodied in the ability to
perform labour so as to produce economic value. Further, several
studies have found that a number of factors affect on human capital;
education isin the premier position among these factors. It includes
the knowledge that comes from formal education, non-formal
education and informal education. The current study is carried out
with the objective of identifying and analysing the impact of human
capital on employee performance of medium scale apparel industry
in Sri Lanka. As the data collection tool, a semi-structured
questionnaire was used with a sample of 100 employees selected on
simple random sampling techniques from 10 apparel companies
which were selected on convenient sampling method. Structural
equation method was used to analyse the data statistically. As the
tool to analyse the data, SPSS Amos (version 21) was used. Finally,
the research study finds that education, age, sex, civil status, rural or
urban distinction, work experience, and training and development
effect on employee performance. The study found that urban
employees are more productive than rural employees; female
employees are more productive than males; female employees with
the age lesser than 25 years are more productive while males with
age less than 30 are more productive; the impact of primary
education with training and development are more productive. Further, being the employees in the urban sector, being a male aged
between 30 to 35, having experience between 10 to 15 years and
having education up to secondary education contribute to better
employee performance. | en_US |
